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PrimeFaces Team is pleased to announce the official Newsletter for PrimeFaces. Your monthly newsletter features news about the PrimeFaces development, events, offers and more.
First issue, July 2014 has been sent to existing subscribers already, if you'd like to subscribe, please visit the subscribe form at PrimeFaces homepage....

PrimeFaces Team is pleased to announce a new dual Elite Release featuring over 30 improvements.
Highlights
InputSwitch is a new addition to the suite and it is now available in 5.0.4 for Elite subscribers.
DataTable has received a lot attention in these releases, various issues have been fixed.
Ajax requests can now be aborted using PrimeFaces.ajax.Queue.abortAll() call.
IE11 support is improved.
New Features
New Component: InputSwitch (5.0.4)
Collator support for DataTable sorting (5.0.4, 4.0.17)
Delay option for OutputPanel Deferred Loading (5.0.4)
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Thoughtworks Technology Radar 2014 has made an "outdated" analysis on JSF with focusing on the abstraction of HTML-CSS-JS which is against modern web development. Notice they use the term "J2EE" that explains a lot already about their research.
The analysis has two major problems, JSF is not what they have been told anymore and second "We recommend teams use simple frameworks and embrace and understand web technologies including HTTP, HTML and CSS." assumes there is a silver...

PrimeFaces 4 has been released and Elite Releases to support 3.5 and 4.0 keep coming. In parallel the next major version has been initiated for heavy duty development.
That is PrimeFaces 5.
PrimeFaces Mobile
We've decided to merge PrimeFaces Mobile back into core as having a separate library is causing compatibility issues with core. There will also be important changes in page definition, since Mobile hasn't reached 1.0, it is a good time to finalize APIs.
PrimeFaces Push
As we've announced...

PrimeFaces 3.5.18 and 4.0.2 releases are now available to Elite and Pro users. These versions focus on Internet Explorer compatibility overall. Special news is that IE7 support is back (partially). Although we phased out IE7 support in 3.5, a PRO user has stepped in to sponsor particular cases and while we are on it, improved various other parts for IE7 and newer.
Here are the common enhancements for both releases;
Transferred items are still highlighted on bootstrap theme...

PrimeFaces Team is pleased to announce the 4.0 Final Release. After months of development and hard work, 4.0 is now available, free as a community release (fully featured suite under apache license). There are close to 350 improvements over 3.5, please see full changelog for details.
JSF 2.2 Support
PrimeFaces 4.0 brings first-class support for JSF 2.2. Important features like pass through attributes, reset values, servlet 3.x uploads are supported. Thanks to internal runtime detection, 4.0 can also...

Testing progress is in progress for PrimeFaces 4.0 Final and we've ported some of the improvements to the 3.5.x as well with the next in line 3.5.16.
Dialog Framework broken when open Dialog already opened
GrowlRenderer leaves trailing comma
Exception for empty p:datatable with rows=** attribute and paginator=true defined
Dialog: Not render facet footer when rendered is false
JS error in Dialog Framework
Column Header Blinking IE8
Tree dropRestrict="sibling" can be bypassed
Selection problem with SelectCheckboxMenu
Download
Binaries, Sources, Javadocs and Tag docs are available in PrimeFaces...

PrimeFaces Elite == High Quality
PrimeFaces Team is pleased to announce an update on PrimeFaces 3.5.x Elite Series. 3.5.14 focuses purely on maintenance and highlight is the major performance upgrade in Ajax Updates for Internet Explorer. Time it takes for an ajax update in IE has been reduced drastically, as an example we had a complex test case where we managed to get 7x speed up from 7 seconds to less than a second.
There are also improvements...

PrimeFaces for ASP.NET WebForms project has been cancelled after two releases and as PrimeTek we have decided not to do further investments. Instead of .NET, our secondary focus will be PrimeUI who is very close to 1.0 release already and can be used with any web framework.
The reasons for the decision can be summarized as;
No feeling of passion that we have for PrimeFaces or PrimeUI
WebForms is a legacy technology replaced by MVC successor
No Clean and Flexible APIs...